<div dir="ltr">Kari!<div><br></div><div style>I like that thought so much that I might steal it! thanks :)</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 9:50 AM, Kári Gunnarsson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kari.gunnarsson@simnet.is" target="_blank">kari.gunnarsson@simnet.is</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">This is beautiful.<br><br>I am now thinking to invite people around here to a open space workshop series with the theme: "<span><span style="line-height:110%;font-size:10pt;background-color:rgb(231,229,218)">beyond your wildest dreams</span></span>" It sounds like something that could work for people.<br>
<br>I will put this invitation as an advertisement in the local paper.<br><br>I wonder if you people have any pointers for a good invitation letter for this theme.<br><br>with love<br>Kári<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
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On 5 April 2013 19:10, David Glenwinkel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:david@villagecare.com" target="_blank">david@villagecare.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Great job, thanks!<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> <a href="mailto:oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org" target="_blank">oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org" target="_blank">oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Tricia Chirumbole<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, April 05, 2013 10:02 AM<br><b>To:</b> World wide Open Space Technology email list<br><b>Subject:</b> [OSList] Village Care notes! Chats 3 &4<u></u><u></u></span></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">
<u></u> <u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">hi all! <u></u><u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Following is a rather lengthy set of notes detailing the past 2 Village Care conversations...whew! <u></u><u></u></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">As before, the notes were processed very little and are likely to include mistakes and omissions :)<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">
<u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Village Care chat 3</b><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Participants: Skye, David, Suzanne, Pernilla, Tricia, Marie Ann, Linda Stevenson, Paul Levy<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span>Skye has talked with David 1:1 and asked him, “What does he want out of this?” [skype discussions, interactions]<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.75in"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">o</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span>David’s response: He likes metaphysical discussions, but he loves action. <b>What’s next? How do we go global? </b><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span>David will connect Tricia with the Village Care leader in Nigeria for connecting her Ghanaian friends – he covers Ghana, Togo, Benin, Cameroon….<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span>Suzanne: Introduces how she is passionate about <b>unleashing leadership</b> at any level and that our North American model formed in the <b>Industrial Age, hierarchies, </b>etc., is <b>not working!</b><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span>She has been <b>working with Millennials</b> in the realm of unleashing leadership. She feels we are at a <b>crossroads</b>, not just for poor communities, but for the “wasteland” of the young generation. They have <b>vast potential, but also vast college debt</b>. She wants to unleash their leadership so that they can unleash that of others!<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.75in"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">o</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span>She wants us all to <b>come to Florida</b> [for the WOSONOS in case you weren’t sure!], so we can respond to the prompt: The world is waiting!!There is much ready to emerge, are we ready? <u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span>Paul: He is inspired by the discussion David gave of the respect for elders in the decision making of African villages. <u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.75in"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">o</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span>What can we learn about the elder system in business and corporate settings? <u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.75in"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">o</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span>He sees commonalities among healthy communities. <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in">
<span style="font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span>Either Paul or David suggests, “that no company is healthy for more than 1 or 2 years at a time” [then they need to reassess, refresh, regroup]<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span>David shares that in his experience leaders tend to be buried in companies and are not necessarily the nominal leaders – he can usually “<b>feel the rhythm” in a business</b> and identify the true leaders, as well as feel if there “spirit” is “right” or “wrong”. <u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span>David mentions how <b>Village Care</b> is supported by him and 3 friends with <b>no outside support.</b><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.75in"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">o</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span>He was close to spreading the work further, but ran out of money, time, and energy. <u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span>Paul: <b>applying the Village care principles to the corporate world: </b>In regards to the importance of using only African facilitators for the village care work, why don’t we find people in organizations , homegrown people, to run the circle?<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.75in"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">o</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span>David replies that he doesn’t even do the intro in his programs<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.75in"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">o</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span>Skye asks if he can <b>identify characteristics of a good facilitator</b>?<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.75in"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">o</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span>David says he is not sure how he does it, he just knows<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.25in">
<span style="font-family:Wingdings">§</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span>Trying to make all of the program “Dumb ass simple” <span style="font-family:Wingdings">J</span> so anyone can use it. <u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Courier New"">o</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span>Pernilla suggests that it may depend on the question. In a conflict situation, it may help to have an external person, whereas for a “building” focused initiative, internal may make sense.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.75in"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">o</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span>Paul shares that one time on a project in Eastern Europe, he did not feel right opening the circle, so he asked someone else to do it, [someone internal or local I am guessing] and it worked!...Another time, they requested the “Englishman”, so he did the opening. <u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span>Pernilla opens discussion about the difficult of applying things at a <b>global level. </b>In relation to the complexity and varying <b>relationships between governments and people</b>.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.75in"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">o</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span>She adds that in Denmark, the citizens have a “graceful view of government”<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.25in"><span style="font-family:Wingdings">§</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span>Some Americans on the call are confounded by this concept :o<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.25in">
<span style="font-family:Wingdings">§</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span>The Denmark States’ relationship with the individual is to protect them from the family/clan [demands I guess] – this is also intriguing to a few of the Americans! <u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span>Skye proposes that the<b> key to a revolution is 1) Hope; 2) Seeing Progress</b><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span>Discussion about whether or not to <b>use social media and the web</b> for sharing ideas or how to. <u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.75in"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">o</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span>Paul offers that there are comparable web services “behind the firewall” that do not have the commercial distractions and ties of those such as twitter. <u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.25in"><span style="font-family:Wingdings">§</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span>More on this Paul? <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span>Discussion on how/if to open up the discussion to everyone interested in the spirit of OS or not.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.75in"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">o</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span>Concern presented that the discussion/group may get too large to manage effectively. <u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.75in"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">o</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span>Suzanne suggests some tools she was introduced to by Ben Roberts of Dialogue and Deliberation that can be used to break groups into smaller groups [I think this applies to skype discussions, but not sure!]<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.75in"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">o</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span>Seems to be consensus that this approach sounds reasonable<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in"> <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Village Care chat 4</b><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">
Participants: Skye, David Gwenlinkel, Tricia, Linda Stevenson, Denyse (David’s colleague/acquaintance)<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span>Skye: Interested in the intersection among OS, Village Care model, and her work with autognomics –<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.75in"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">o</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span>possibility of identifying <b>Universal Principles</b>?<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.25in">
<span style="font-family:Wingdings">§</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span>Seems to include the existence of “self agency” or <b>personal agency</b><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.25in">
<span style="font-family:Wingdings">§</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span><b>Coherence </b>seems to be another<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.75in"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">o</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span>Looking at the “why” behind processes that work<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.75in"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">o</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span>Applying these concepts to <b>breaking cycles of poverty</b><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.75in"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">o</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span>Notes that the rate of change is happening at a pace in recent history that allows us to <b>observe processes</b>, not just outcomes, as well as the <b>evolution of process</b>. <u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.25in"><span style="font-family:Wingdings">§</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span>Inspecting the phenomena consistent across living systems can aid in a revolutionary change in the way we think [about our world and place in it]<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.25in"><span style="font-family:Wingdings">§</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span>This way of thinking is in contrast to the predominant modern Western mode of <b>thinking that is focused on things, fixed objects,</b> and the manipulation of these things. <u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.75in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span>We think we can control and predict based on our understanding of this, but even these seemingly discrete and “fixed” objects have a history and even a personal agency that makes our ability to control and predict their behavior impossible. <u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span>David: requests Skye’s <b>definition of self agency</b>. He is currently pondering the concept of language to use and how to agree on this in respect to his work and in respect to his second book, which is almost finished. <u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.75in"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">o</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span>His language is defined around his OS work in Africa <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.75in">
<span style="font-family:"Courier New"">o</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span>Notes that funders still like the terms, “capacity building” and “sustainability”, but these approaches are not working and he wants to <b>define what his network does</b> as something different. <u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.75in"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">o</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span>Skye offers that personal agency can be defined in a number of ways. Provides the links:<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.25in"><span style="font-family:Wingdings">§</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span>Definition of Personal Agency: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense_of_agency" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense_of_agency</a> <u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.25in"><span style="font-family:Wingdings">§</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span>Common definition: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycle_of_" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycle_of_</a><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.25in"><span style="font-family:Wingdings">§</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span>Notes that personal agency needs to begin very early on and that we tend to interrupt this process from the start by interrupting the natural process of birth [not sure what birthing practices are meant here…anyone know about lotus births? Pretty cool <span style="font-family:Wingdings">J</span>))<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span>David: Reintroduces his self-query, <b>“what is the appropriate level of follow-up?” </b>to provide to the villages that he works with. <u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.75in"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">o</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span>He has repeatedly seen communities fall back into their hierarchical tendencies of putting chairs in rows, etc, but that does not necessarily stop the process – he wonders if they would do even better if they maintained the more open practices. <u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span>David also wonders <b>how you can let go</b> [I believe in terms of opening up his Village Care process for use by a broader group or completely public use] <b>while still</b> <b>maintaining the claims</b> that they currently make [assuming this means that the outcomes and success observed can still be presented as results that can be expected by users of the process]<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.75in"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">o</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span>Tricia’s thoughts on this are that you cannot have both in full expression/pure form – both the opening and the assurance of “success”; adaptations will be made – some better and some worse – but you can mitigate the bastardization and/or improve chances of “quality/accurate” transmission. <u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.25in"><span style="font-family:Wingdings">§</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span>Harkening back to the question about follow up: The successes and attrition will vary –all ideas and methods introduced to the world get absorbed and applied incrementally and in patterns that are not easy to observe and perhaps impossible to predict. <u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.25in"><span style="font-family:Wingdings">§</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span>Any idea, practice, behavioral tendency, or cultural norm is more likely to grow to a critical mass if allowed the ability for it to be fully open and spread virally with a likely incidence that at some points it will be considered “bastardized” or completely separate from the original intent or core philosophical underpinnings by some.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.25in"><span style="font-family:Wingdings">§</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span>That is not to say it is still not a worthy endeavor to provide education, support, and advocacy for the principles and practices that you find to be valuable. <u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.25in"><span style="font-family:Wingdings">§</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span>In my own experience, people and groups absorb and incorporate ideas into their world in their own time, when it is ripe for them. It is challenging to observe when something is having an impression, and likely impossible and not worth the effort to attempt to predict or manage what is having an impression and if/when/how it will be incorporated ….That can probably all be said in a nice one-liner…like, “just let go” <span style="font-family:Wingdings">J</span>))<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span>Skye: Back to Universal Principles and <b>coherence and effective action. </b>Queries, how do we figure out what you do each day? Something has been effective in your past and then get to choose what you do with it. The development of values and valuing occurs in this manner. <u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.75in"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">o</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span>References a <b>“Breaking the Cycle of Poverty” Program in Mexico </b>that is redefining personal agency and empowerment and has been very effective.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.75in"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">o</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span>I believe it is this project – book on Amazon, but couldn’t locate link for program: <u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.75in"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">o</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span><span style="background:#e7e5da;font-size:10.0pt">“Many international development efforts have been limited because they are elaborated as exclusively economic projects. Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen argues, however, that combating poverty requires expanding individual freedoms and capabilities, in place of bolstering only macroeconomic growth. Based on the work of IMIFAP (The Mexican Institute of Family and Population Research) in Mexico and Latin America, this book seeks to transform Sen’s philosophical approach into an operative model for sustainable development through its Framework for Enabling Empowerment (FrEE).”</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span><span style="background:#e7e5da;font-size:10.0pt">Linda: States that she can hear Harrison’s voice (creepy!): <b>Don’t work too hard</b> [this discussion is not listed in perfect chronological order, so not sure what this input is inspired by, sorry!].</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.75in"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">o</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span><span style="background:#e7e5da;font-size:10.0pt">The power of OS is the power of self-organization. Reminded about the concept of a <b>“nexus of caring” </b>Opening the space for the personal caring to flourish. What do you care about genuinely? It starts to reveal itself. It is because this is who we are – <b>we already know how to do this – we just need the invitation. </b>We don’t want to fall back into a piecemeal approach.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.75in"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">o</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span><span style="background:#e7e5da;font-size:10.0pt">She repeatedly runs into challenges with people she works with in corporations who want results and have no experience that this can work – they are tied into hierarchies. </span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.75in"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">o</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span><span style="background:#e7e5da;font-size:10.0pt">Recounts the message from [I think a group of <b>young people</b>] at the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2010 or 2011. Paraphrased: <i>They are connected so effectively that <b>they do not need hierarchies and do not need to fail. </b>They need everyone’s support and are willing to learn from others.”</i></span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.75in"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">o</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span><span style="background:#e7e5da;font-size:10.0pt">Notes that it is <b>the</b> <b>aggregate that self organizes. </b></span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.75in"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">o</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span><b><span style="background:#e7e5da;font-size:10.0pt">Innovation gathering proposal: </span></b><span style="background:#e7e5da;font-size:10.0pt">Linda and Suzanne are interested in bringing together 100 people in a room – both young and old – for collaboration and innovation “beyond your wildest dreams” </span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span><span style="background:#e7e5da;font-size:10.0pt">Skye poses the question: What can we do next? What does everybody want to do? – she would like to explore how her work fits in, but is not sure how it is useful. </span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.75in"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">o</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span><span style="background:#e7e5da;font-size:10.0pt">David responds that he is not sure that “we need to be in a big hurry…village care is closer to a place where it can be used anytime/anywhere”. Adds that while information is copyrighted, it is the kind of copyright that he wants to be used</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.75in"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">o</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span><span style="background:#e7e5da;font-size:10.0pt">Tricia is interested in discussing mechanisms for expanding/opening up village care; exploring the combination of village care with other approaches/philosophies such as Skye’s work – even making it open source; and experimenting herself with applying the model to communities. </span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.75in"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">o</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span><span style="background:#e7e5da;font-size:10.0pt">Initial thoughts on e</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt">xplore the concept of opening up/scaling:</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.25in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Wingdings">§</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt">ID existing networks with aligned missions or audiences for spreading the word or adoption</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.25in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Wingdings">§</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Explore value, feasibility, and alignment of various methods for knowledge and expertise sharing – forums, trainings, books, online resources, face-to-face training, etc. </span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.25in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Wingdings">§</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Structures for sustainability - community fundraising, paying clients, all volunteer, multiple methods, etc. </span><u></u><u></u></p>
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